SF Bay area hackfest

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > What happens when the compiler, toolchain, etc, etc, are all updated to
> > > make TLS work, but the user libmaps C_R in?  Does stuff blow up?  I'm ok
> > > with C_R not explicitely supporting it so long as it doesn't create new
> > > failure cases.
> >
> > I guess stuff blows up, probably very similar to what already
> > happens when someone tries to use nvidia drivers/openGL with
> > libpthread or libthr.  But as far as I know, nothing we have
> > is currently built to use it (it probably can't be because
> > our released toolchain first needs to support it).
> >
> 
> This isn't terribly desirable since C_R is going to be the fallback thread
> package for 5.x.  Is there any way for C_R to detect when it's in a
> position to blow up and/or give an intelligent message to the user?

It's probably easier just to add TLS support to libc_r if it's
highly desirable.

-- 
Dan Eischen